For Peter Sokolowski, a high-profile event like the 9/11 attacks or the 2012 vice-presidential debate is not just news. It’s a “vocabulary event” that sends readers racing to their dictionaries. For ...

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For decades, scholars at the University of Chicago have sought to preserve and share the languages of South Asia and the Middle East—from Assamese to Torwali, Khowar to Pashto. In this work, the ...

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The word for sunlight or sunshine in Angami — a language spoken by around 130,000 people in the North East — is niakikezie. In the Ao-language of Nagaland, it is anüpu oranüsangwa. And this reporter ...

Riyadh: The King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language (KSAA) launched today the "Creating Digital Dictionaries" pathway, which aims to empower lexicographers in modern technologies used in ...

Some dictionary users still want the physical product. Source: supplied. If you’re like me and you find yourself putting your thoughts onto the page (or the digital document) with any kind of ...

IN what's predicted to become the Google of digital dictionaries, a new website marries the definitions of 1.7 million words with relevant information, images and multimedia plumbed from Web 2.0.

Macmillan Education said Monday it will cease publishing a print edition of its dictionaries, following other publications into an online-only format as print sales decline. Final editions of the ...

This is a continuation of the Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard's March 11, 2013 article about the changing faces and phases of online dictionaries. Enjoy. Merriam-Webster unveiled a new ...